A Guide to Processors for Wireless Base Stations
Covers base-station processors that integrate CPUs and DSPs for Layer 1–3 processing on a single chip. Designed primarily for small cells, these processors cut cost and power by replacing multiple chips.

A Guide to Multicore Processors
Covers embedded processors with four or more CPU cores that are used for wired and wireless communications, storage, security, and other applications.

A Guide to Embedded Processors
Covers 32- and 64-bit processors with one to four CPU cores that are used for networking, communications, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial control, medical equipment, and more.

August 3, 2015

Broadcom Connects Cloud Servers (NWR)
Ten months after announcing its Tomahawk switch, Broadcom has begun sampling NetXtreme C-Series 25G and 50G Ethernet adapters and controllers for the server end of the wire.

What’s Inside Your Watch? (MCR)
The Apple Watch, Pebble Watch, and Android Wear watches use very different hardware designs, which help determine the cost, battery life, and features they can offer.

Fiji Boosts Performance With HBM (MPR)
AMD’s Fiji GPU uses a tweaked architecture and the new High Bandwidth Memory to deliver a 20–30% performance boost on DX11 games and promises greater benefits for DX12.

Kinetis Integrates Bluetooth for IoT (MPR)
Freescale is adding Bluetooth Low Energy to the Kinetis lineup, including the KW30Z BLE SoC, and to the dual-mode KW40Z, which offers concurrent BLE and IEEE 802.15.4 capability.

Cavium Secures the Cloud (MPR/NWR)
The market leader for security coprocessors is protecting its turf by introducing its next-generation Nitrox V design. The new chip blunts the threat from Intel’s Coleto Creek.